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Cross-media cooperation between the publishing, theatrical and film industries: an interdisciplinary colloquium
Saturday 12 April 2008 |
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This is an initiative of the Cross-media cooperation in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s AHRC project. The Project team consists of Professor Simon Eliot (University of London), Professor Alexis Weedon and Dr Vincent L Barnet (University of Bedfordshire).
Today popular authors can work with one company which markets or syndicates all their rights in book publication, film production and merchandising. The origins of this practice lie in the 1920s and 1930s when film companies approached publishing companies to purchase film options on the copyrights of their novels. Some authors benefited from cross media tie-ins and were able to exert considerable control over the marketing and merchandising of their stories. Others chose to leave it to the growing body of professional adapters, screen writers and literary agents.
The aim of this day colloquium is to draw together research from different disciplines to examine the extent of cross-media cooperation between media professionals, agents, and authors and ask how the past has shaped practices of the present day.
PLACES ARE LIMITED AND EARLY REGISTRATION IS ADVISABLE.
Programme:
| 9.30am |
Registration (3rd Floor Foyer, Senate House North Block) |
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| 10.00 |
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The Chair, Professor Simon Eliot (Institute of English Studies), will lead a discussion of changes to the profession of authorship/author practices from late Victorian times to 1920s/1930s, and literary sources/archives. |
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Professor Alexis Weedon (University of Bedfordshire), 'Some observations on cross-media co-operation in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s'
Dr Vincent L. Barnett (University of Bedfordshire), 'Elinor Glyn. The Novelist As Hollywood Star'
Dr Mary Hammond (University of Southampton), 'Hitchcock and Hall Caine: the Victorian Bestseller on the Silent Screen' |
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| 11.30 |
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The Chair, Dr Mike Hammond (University of Southampton), will lead a discussion of film history and cross-overs into publishing around WWI. |
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Dr Amy Sargeant (Reader in Film, University of Warwick), 'Frederick Britten Austin: Boy's Own Stories, Girls' Romances and Interwar Politics'
Nathalie Morris (University of East Anglia), 'Eminent British Authors and the Stoll Film Company'
Dr Caroline Copeland (Napier University), 'Katherine Cecil Thurston’s Chilcote' |
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| 12.30 |
Lunch |
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| 1.15 |
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The Chair, Dr Melanie Bell (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne), will lead a discussion of the film and theatrical industry's' practices, the role of reviewers both within the industry and as critics, and tensions between them. |
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Dr Simon Frost (Institute of literature, media and cultural studies, University of Southern Denmark), 'A Toga Tale of Ingomar the Barbarian: in print, in drawing rooms, at fairgrounds and in Hollywood'
Dr Lawrence Napper (University of Greenwich and at King’s College, London), ‘Not over-exercising our intellectual powers in the choice of subjects’: The Gainsborough scenario department, 1929-31 |
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| 2.20 |
Panel 4: Chair: Professor Alexis Weedon |
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Professor Imelda Whelehan, 'Raising Contemporary Issues: the field of adaptation'
Dr Simone Murray (recorded presentation from Monash Australia), 'What Are You Working On?: the shifting role of the author in an era of cross-media adaptation'
Prof Juliet Gardiner, 'Talk: Responsive Meanings: the case of Atonement' |
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| 4.30 |
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Enquiries and Registration: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email jon.millington@sas.ac.uk
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